The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-02
THE "ANGEL MAKERp OF TEXAS.
The Deadly Contrivance Devised to Stop
the Practice of Fence Cutting.

In Deadly C~ontrivance Devised to Stop
the Practice of Fence Cutting.
During the course of a conversation Mr..
Wronn became confidential, and this is his
story: II have solved tho question of fence
cutting in Texas to a certainty, and in less
than three months you viii never hear OF
a wire fence being molested."
SIN what manner do you propose to stop
it, Mr.. Wrenn>'' was asked.
81 will show you" he answered, and
opening a large valise he took out a queer
looking object, and continued: "Here is the
angel maker, patented and guaranteed to
kill and demolish more fence cutters in ten
minutes than you can haul Off in a freight
car"
The 'angel maker" as Mr.. Wrenn has
f%acetiously christened his terrible produc-
ton, is simply a pe~ar-shaped, hollow bomb
made of cast iron. The casting is one
eighth of an inch thick, and the small end
can be unscrewed, showing a cavity capable
Of holding something over a pint. After
un%screwing the top and showing the empty
bomb, Mr.. Wrenn continued: 81 manufact-
ured the first ofb these bombs during the
summer, but | was not able to put them on
the market until a few weeks ago, since
which time | have sold in Texas alone over
a quarter of a million bombs. They are
operated thus: The top is unscrewed and
the bomb filled with an explosive gelatine,
also manufactured by me, a compound that
is much stronger than dynamite. This COM
pound will only explode by a heavy shock,
either by electricity or otherwise. At the
top of the lid is a small aperture where the
cap or exploder is inserted. To this little
knob a very fine copper wire is attached
and cut off at any desired length. The
owner of the fence makes an excavation
twelve or eighteen inches deep about every
100 yards along the line of his fence, usually
near the post, and places an angel maker
in each hole. He then runs the fine wire up
the post in order to conceal it, and fastens
it to the bottom wire of the fence. The
bomb is utterly harmless up to now. He
then moves a little screw half an inch to the
right, which presses the cap firmly down
into the g~elatine. He replaces the dirt in
tho hole and conceals it with trash.
"The fence cutter will never SEQ the little
wire coming out of the ground, but with his
nippers will clip the barbed wire. When he
cuts the WIRE it always jerks violently
toward the post, being tightly stretched.
This easily explodes tho friction cap. One
of these angel makers placed eighteen
inches under ground will blow out an OK
cavation like q cellar and hurl rock and
dirt hundreds Of feet in every direction.
Tho concussion alone will kill man or beast
within sixty feet, and a man within seventy
five yards will not be very likely to escape I'M
At an experiment made near Little
Rock a stone weighing over 100 pounds was
blown 100 feet. Tho destructive force of
this g~elatine is terrific. I nave correspondent
with many men in Texas who have suffered
from fence cutters, and nearly all have
given me orders, and tho bombs are being
in a harmless form all over the
state. | do not have the lsass doubt OF fence
stopping just al soon ~ the fencs
cutters understand tho danger they face.
Of course some few will 90 ahead, and will
DO blown into minoe meat, but their friends
soon catch on to the racket, % 10
peak, and thon fence cutting will DO at
an end. FORT Worth Cor. New Ysrk
Times.
Inc most important stchins BY a Now York
artist this season il Hamilton Hamiltons largo
plate reproducing jules Breton's "Communi-
cants," tho picture that attractE 20 much at
and brought such IN enormous price
the Moran COLLATION..